Let’s get serious about User Stories! Learn what good ones and bad ones look like and correct poor user story habits. Learn how to slice and split stories by increments of value, and learn how to handle technical stories. We will look at common user story mistakes and strategies to correct them. We will also look at techniques that support great user stories, like Story Maps, Acceptance Criteria and where the other details get worked out. Come get serious about User Stories!

This highly interactive workshop helps Agile BAs understand the BA Role on agile teams, and focuses on high-quality user stories and related techniques. The workshop follows a case study through product vision to brainstorming, writing, analyzing, splitting, and refining user stories. Emphasis will be on alignment to vision, organizational strategy, end user value and human centered aspects of the system.

Learning Objectives:

• Discover what good user stories look like
• Dig deep into the mistakes many teams make with user stories, and how to correct them
• Take a deep look into where all the details like business rules, exceptions, non-functional requirements go with user stories